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Ernest Manzon-Visual Arts/Media Specialist Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas

The cast of the play //The Children's Hour//. Circa 1935

The cast of the move //The Children's Hour//. 1961.

"Homos invade S.F.," from an issue of the San Francisco tabloid //The Truth//. July 11, 1949.

Gay Liberation Front poster, New York. 1970

Gay Liberation Front Sticker. 1970.

Campaign poster for openly homosexual Jack Baker, running for president of the University of Minnesota Student Association. 1971

Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at CIty Hall. November 27, 1978.

Because of the rapid spread of AIDS, city officials closed sex clubs known to be frequented by gay men, such as the Mineshaft Bar in New York City. November 12, 1985.

//The Ladder: A Lesbian Review//. October 1957.


 * Iconic Films:**

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- 17th century cross dressing was common in plays, as, for example, evident in the content of many of William Shakespeare's plays
====- Native American cultures also widely respected individuals who, in today's terms, might have been transgender, bisexual or homosexual, stating that they embodied characteristics of both male and female counterparts.====

- In Europe and America, a broader movement of "free love" was emerging from the 1860s
====- (Institute for Sexology) in 1919 The institute conducted an enormous amount of research, saw thousands of transgender and homosexual clients at consultations, and championed a broad range of sexual reforms including sex education, contraception and women's rights. However, the gains made in Germany would soon be drastically reversed with the rise of Nazism, and the institute and its library were destroyed in 1933.==== ====- Homophile movement began in the late 1940s with groups in the Netherlands and Denmark, and continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s with groups in Sweden, Norway, the United States, France, Britain and elsewhere.==== ====- ** 1969–1974 The start of LGBT **This new radicalism is often attributed to the Stonewall riots of 1969, when a group of transsexual, butch/femme lesbians, drag queens and gay male patrons at a bar in New York resisted a police raid.==== ====- **Mark Segal**, an early member of Gay Liberation, has continued to pave the road of gay equality. Many who refer to Mark Segal as the dean of American gay journalism. As a pioneer of the local gay press movement, he was one of the founders and former president of both The National Gay Press Association and the National Gay Newspaper Guild. He also is the founder and publisher of the award winning Philadelphia Gay News. As a young gay activist, Segal understood the power of media. He recently coordinated a network of local gay publications nationally to celebrate October as gay history month, with a combined print run reaching over a half million people.==== ====Themes: Throughout history "Coming Out" seems to be the most difficult for the gay community. The public is so quick to judge people and their differences. The Ladder I believe shows it best, gays must mask themselves and hide their true colors becuase of the fear of not being accepted. It's hard enough that gays have to accept themselves and live with the fact that they are different, but they must also deal with the world coming down on them for the change they have caused.====

reached a compromise which they labeled Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue.

 * BOOKS:**

Phy-Olsen,Allene.__Same Sex-Marriage__.United States:Greenwood Publishing Group,2006.
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 * LINKS:**

= Music Specialist - Tanya Aguirre = //__**"I'm walking through life in nature's disguise**__// //__**You laugh at me and you criticize**__// //__**'Cause I'm happy, carefree and gay**__// //__**Yes, I'm gay**__// //__**Ain't no fault - it's a fact**__// //__**I was born this way - yeah**__// //__**Now I won't judge you - don't you judge me**__// //__**We're all the way nature meant us to be"**__// //__**"Dont get strung out**__// //__**By the way I look.**__// //__**Dont judge a book by its cover.**__// //__**I'm not much of a man by the light of day,**__// //__**But by night Im one hell of a lover**__//
 * Music for the lgbt community is a way for them to express what they are feeling. The basis for many of the lgbt's work is "sence of self".
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 * ==**Carl Bean- S****inger**==
 * of** //**"i was born this way"**// ||
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 * =**Tim Curry- singer**=
 * of //"sweet Transvestite"//** ||

//__**I'm just a sweet transvestite**__// //__**From Transexual, Transylvania"**__//

of **//"i want to break free"//** || __**//"I want to break free//**__ __**//I want to break free//**__ __**//I want to break free from your lies//**__ __**//You're so self-satisfied I don't need you//**__ __**//I got to break free//**__ __**//God knows, God knows I want to break free//**__
 * [[image:http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/1001/queen-a-disturbing-image-from-the-video-i-want-to-break-free-demotivational-poster-1262696698.jpg width="255" height="300"]] ||
 * =**Quen- singers**=

__**//I've fallen in love//**__ __**//I've fallen in love for the first time//**__ __**//And this time I know it's for real//**__ __**//I've fallen in love, yeah//**__ __**//God knows, God knows I've fallen in love"//**__ of //"True colors"// ||
 * [[image:http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/579e4e7d0d860a13f3a5652b8dbaaa6a/2593680.jpg width="288" height="309"]] ||
 * Cyndi Lauper- singer

__//**"You with the sad eyes**//__ __//**Don't be discouraged**//__ __//**Oh i realize**//__ __//**It's hard to take courage**//__ __//**In a world full of people**//__ __//**You can lose sight of it all**//__ __//**And the darkness inside you**//__ __//**Can make you feel so small**//__

__//**But i see your true colors**//__ __//**Shining through**//__ __//**I see your true colors**//__ __//**And thats why i love you**//__ __//**So don't be afraid to let them show**//__ __//**Your true colors**//__ __//**True colors are beautiful,**//__ __//**Like a Rainbow"**//__

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**Alyna Garcia-Literature Specialist**
Thomas Cannon wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, //Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd// (1749). Social reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England around 1785. Passage from: - __God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality__ by Jay Michaelson “Admittedly, this book is for //me// too. Before I came out, I was certain that being openly gay would spell the end of my religious life. I was an orthodox-practicing Jew, and my religion gave meaning and shape to my life. But I repressed my sexuality, acting out occasionally but regretting it afterwards, and I tried, for years, to change. Eventually, after ten years in the closet-an all-too-cozy metaphor for lying to yourself and others, and hating yourself for doing so – I had had enough. The pain, isolation, and shame had grown so great – the futile relationships with women, the arguments with God, the hatred of myself for being unable to change – that I was ready to forsake my religion for the sake of my happiness.”

__Becoming A Man__
“Why do they hate us? Why do they fear us? Why do they want us invisible? I don’t trust my own answers anymore. I’m too twisted up with rage, too hooked on the millennium. But I find myself combing the past these days, dreaming dreams without sleep, puzzling over my guys, the gay and the straight and the in-between. Somewhere in there is a horror of love, and try to kill the beast in them, they take it out on us. Which is not to say I don’t chastise myself for halving the world into //us// and //them//. I know that the good guys aren’t all gay, or the bad all straight. That is what I am sifting for, to know what a man is finally, no matter the tribe or gender."

__** Coming Out To Myself **__ I am trying hard not to kiss you I am trying even harder to not be with you
 * by Al-Antony Moody **

I keep on covering my heart with lies Smothering it, I don't know why?

I need to tell you that I am attracted to the same sex Will you think of me any less?

I need to free myself and find peace I need to try and understand all of this

I just want to be accepted like anyone else To be respected and not shadowed in doubt

I need to come out. Even if it is to myself

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